244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent emergence in the eighteenth century of new art forms: the picturesque landscape, the analytical history, and the English novel. Each of them... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Hellish Cloud and a Sublime Sea 2. Architecture in Ruins 3. The History Man Conclusion Bibliography Index
Biography
Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), UK, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006) and Weather Architecture (2012); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture—the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).
